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Old 30th Jun 2020, 9:20 pm   #21
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Default Re: RTE 1 252kHz to go off air for maintenance

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Just heard on RTE1 that the LW transmitter will be off between 10th September until 17th October for maintenance.

http://www.hildegarde.ie/works-to-ma...rrow-naughton/

Looks like it's being reprieved for another couple of years.

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Old 30th Jun 2020, 9:22 pm   #22
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Default Re: RTE 1 252kHz to go off air for maintenance

Whilst complaining about the weather may be a British thing, I suppose that the vagaries of the Atlantic system are a bit more hard-hitting on that side of the Irish Sea too!

I imagine that high up a mast, you get very good indeed at recognising the wrong sort of cloud from many miles away.

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Old 30th Jun 2020, 10:00 pm   #23
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Default Re: RTE 1 252kHz to go off air for maintenance

They won't be dropping this mast (I hope! ) being a mast-radiator. Looks like there's work on the antenna system though, from the blurb. Weather-wise, what appears calm on the ground might not be so calm aloft. Rigging winch bonds and platforms and all that jazz eats into outage time.

Maybe ground radials need repairing / replacing too?
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